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FIRE IT UP: Gleaming tanks and equipment fill the sugar­house at Solar Sweet Maple Farm in Lincoln, Vt. Blue tubing, above, snakes through the woods, bringing maple sap from the trees to the farm’s sugarhouse to be boiled down into syrup.

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It doesn’t take a New Englander’s internal barometer to know that the vapor rising from sugarhouses throughout the region can mean only one thing: Maple sugar season is upon us.

Farms from southern Connecticut to as far north as Eagle Lake, Maine, are firing up boilers as the thick sap begins to flow. The process begins when nature co­operates, pro­viding the region with nights that dip below freezing and days that provide warmer temperatures. The season usually starts in mid-to-late February and runs through March and into early April.

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